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Dreamland (Paperback)
by Kevin Baker (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books; New Ed edition (21 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862073287
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862073289
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 943,439 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Set in early 20th-century New York, the characters in this story include Freud and Jung, a young woman working in the sweatshops of the Lower East Side, a corrupt politician and a Coney Island dwarf. Their intersecting lives are brought together in an explosive conclusion.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Historian's Dream: Coney Island and the City, 21 Dec 2002
By Youssef51 (The Fortress) - See all my reviews
Baker's Dreamland is an eerie and griping fantasy that is grounded in a thorough knowledge of the history of New York City.

Baker is a historian and his professional acumen helps him to tell a spell binding story about the City and its underworld in the beginning of the 1900's. Real people and real events, like Kid Twist and the Triangle Shirt Factory fire are woven together with products of Baker's fertile imagination - regal dwarfs, flamboyant gangsters and predatory garment district bosses. He has a connoisseur's appreciation of Coney Island and that, combined with a fine sense for the inglorious harshness of turn-of-the-century New York, gives the book a lot of appeal.

Dreamland is not a documentary by a long shot, but one can learn plenty by reading this book. One important lesson: Anyone who thinks that the New York of the 1970's and 80's was unusually violent is badly mistaken. The "Good Old Days" would have completely overwhelmed almost all of us modern types with their hardship, violence and injustice.

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